Montage has been making Miami locals feel their stomachs turn inside out with feelings throughout their 12 years of existence. Brothers Ben Pachter and Ray Pachter started the band in Boca Raton when Ben was 17 and Ray was 14.

We received our first reader submission here at the TropiCanna branch of Tropicult! It’s the bummed out tale of a young lady who wanted to give weed a shot, but her experience was botched by a silly boy and the pitfalls of social media. Check it out!

This is a curated selection of local events submitted to Tropicult by the South Florida community ― organized, categorized, and presented in chronological order, linked a complete listing with full event details, including venue and ticketing information.

Do you have a camera on you? Of course you do, it’s 2015. The real question is, what can you actually do with it? Besides taking selfies, that is. With that in mind, South Florida Ford and FilmGate present the Fordista MicroFilm Contest. Here are a few useful apps with great tools that may help you take home that $1k.

Concertgoers at this year’s Heineken TransAtlantic Festival are in for a real treat when The Budos Band takes the stage. Their music is cinematic. Instrumental and lush with dramatic musical passages, hearing The Budos Band and closing one’s eyes is like watching the opening sequence to a Tarantino flick or even better, a real 1970’s action/adventure.

Welcome to HYPE CITY! This is selection of events we’ve gathered throughout the month – organized, categorized, and presented in chronological order, with links to full event details, including maps and ticketing information.

South Florida Ford and FilmGate invite YOU to tell your story and share your own unique perspective of the world by entering the Fordistas Micro-Film Contest (plus, they’re offering a pretty decent shot at winning some extra ca$h money).